Has there been a change in domain name policy?

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  vmn11 · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 8:50 pm

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  Hello. Did you recently change it so that all wordpress URLs end in wordpress.com? The reason I ask is because our site used to be accessed through the URLs floridafolkloresociety.com and floridafolkloresociety.org, but now these URLs do not lead to the page. Any ideas? Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 8:52 pm

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  If you allowed your two domain mapping upgrades to expire that could explain the chnage in URL.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/

  Domain Expiration

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  timethief · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 8:54 pm

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  There is no domain mapping upgrade for floridafolkloresociety.com.
  There is no domain mapping upgrade for floridafolkloresociety.org.

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 9:19 pm

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  floridafolkloresociety.com and floridafolkloresociety.org

  Both domains are registered with Godaddy and the name servers are pointing to Godaddy –

  http://floridafolkloresociety.wordpress.com/ – only has a few Posts

  I was not able to find any cache of floridafolkloresociety.com and floridafolkloresociety.org in Google –

  Did you use some sort of forward and mask in the past?

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  timethief · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 9:23 pm

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  @auxclass
  Forwarding and masking was my guess too and it was I who posted that tag in the sidebar.

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 9, 2013 at 9:46 pm

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  @TT – I saw the tag – that there is no cache of the domain names tells me that the names were probably not attached to a web site – how it was done – not sure and don’t know how to check that part –

  There are several other web sites that are candidates to be on the receiving end of a forward or forward and mask

  Maybe the extra info will help someone

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jul 10, 2013 at 6:59 pm

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  Hi there, we’ve verified that neither floridafolkloresociety.com nor floridafolkloresociety.org is currently registered through WordPress.com nor is either one mapped to a site on WordPress.com through a domain mapping upgrade.

  As auxclass and timethief mentioned earlier, it’s possible that you once had those domains forwarded to your WordPress.com site at GoDaddy’s end, using a forwarding/masking option. Those methods aren’t supported technically on our end, so they aren’t a reliable means of using a custom domain with your WordPress.com site. We recommend purchasing a domain mapping upgrade – here’s our guide to mapping an existing domain.

  Just let me know if you need further help.

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  vmn11 · Member · Jul 13, 2013 at 4:30 pm

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  Thanks so much for your help.